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Berry Cool
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Mon Dec-05-05 05:47 PM
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in high schools. The organization was called "Young American Showcase" and they put bands on the road that had names like Free Fare and Freedom This and Freedom That.
They would be booked for a mandatory school assembly. The students would assemble, the band would play its mainstream rock fare, and then at the end they'd start pushing the Jesus message.
This was SOP in small town high schools back then. Nobody challenged it or stopped it. I went to one of the concerts when I was in high school. I remember my older sisters thinking there was something "wrong" about it. Well, of course there was...we were a public high school. No one should have been pushing religion on us in a public high school.
But I guess it still happens today.
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